Spotting postpartum depression can be tricky if you don’t know what to look for. Meet Katie Lovejoy, mother, poet, and screenwriter of the Netflix film To All the Boys: Always and Forever, along with several other TV and film projects. In this episode of First Words, she candidly shares her experience in the trenches of postpartum after the birth of her son, and how she navigated her way out to find joy in parenting. Katie will also discuss how parenting changed her as a writer and the role poetry played in her healing process.

You can find Katie Lovejoy on Twitter @katie_lovejoy and IMDb.

Katie’s credits mentioned in this episode:

To All the Boys: Always and Forever

Resources mentioned:

The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson on Bookshop.org